Tag: creativity
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Mental illness and genius
For a start, I do not mean myself, as I am just an average author and blogger. I have in mind people who have made enormous contributions to science and the arts. This interconnected problem has troubled the world for a long time. So, how are mental illness and genius connected? Where did the notion…
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John Nash – without schizophrenia, the smartest man
A few people (unlike me) suffering from schizophrenia can lead a life with a full-time job. John Fobes Nash, who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations, is a fine example (even though he had episodes when he was unable to practice the work as a scientist).…
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Are Asians not creative? Few Nobel prizes in literature and science
They often say that Asians’ lack of creativity is a myth. And those who don’t think so point out to faulty formal education system that is around Asia. But what about the huge Asian American minority? These children are fully integrated into the American formal education system and we see no Nobelists or excellent novelists.…
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The malevolent purpose of the formal education system
I have never understood why the American private high schools suck (sorry, I cannot put it in another way). I understood the poor level of the state schools, but private ones? These are schools for the 19th century (or for the Middle Ages). And what would I put into their curriculum? Mathematics (even in a…